MARBLEHEAD — Melina Laganas, a recent Marblehead High graduate, has been awarded a full-tuition, four-year scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
The Berklee City Music College Scholarship is a highly competitive merit- and need-based award. The estimated tuition for four years at Berklee is $190,032.
She plans to major in music production and engineering at Berklee.
Berklee has already been a great fit for Laganas. She received a Berklee City Music High School Academy five-week, summer-intensive scholarship three years in a row and recently received the Unsung Hero Award for Berklee’s pre-college summer ensemble program.
At Berklee’s summer program that first year, she was the youngest — by three years — of the 138 kids who participated.
“It was good to see that the work I put in was noticed,” said Laganas. “It was so great to be with kids who shared the same interests and passions as me.”
Melina is the daughter of William and Enid Laganas, who live on Pleasant Street. Her younger siblings, Aristotle (15) and Oleana (12), enjoy music but not to the passion level of Melina.
It was clear from the start that Laganas had a special talent as a singer. She was the first recipient of the Lynn YMCA’s Rising Star title.
At age 14, she fronted a band of young musicians from School of Rock/Lynn that performed a set of Rolling Stones songs in Central Square as part of the Downtown Lynn Cultural District’s 10th annual Clock to the Rock 5K road race/celebration.
